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No sign of black boxes from China Eastern Airlines plane crash
- Aviation officials say that the investigation has just started and that it is not yet possible to say why the plane went down
- Aircraft came down in a heavily wooded area in southern China
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Investigators combing the wreckage of a plane crash in southern China said on Tuesday that they still had not been able to locate the Boeing 737-800’s flight recorders or identify what caused the plane to go down.
China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 with 132 people on board came down in a steep, heavily wooded site in Teng county, near the city of Wuzhou in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on Monday afternoon. No survivors have been found.
“The aircraft was severely damaged, making the investigation very difficult. The investigation has just started and it is still impossible to clearly pinpoint the cause of the accident,” Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) aviation safety director Zhu Tao said.
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“The investigation team will collect evidence from all parties, focusing on the search for flight recorders at the crash site and carry out analysis of the cause of the accident.”
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China Eastern crash investigators seek clues from flight data and video of plane’s final moments
China Eastern crash investigators seek clues from flight data and video of plane’s final moments
The plane disappeared en route to Guangzhou after taking off from Kunming, in southwestern Yunnan province.
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